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collection from which the following list is made, formed by Mr. Dease amidst many privations and difficulties, possesses peculiar interest; the specimens being beautifully preserved, and arranged in three geographical groupes.—1. The first of these collections, as we shall here enumerate them, was made between the mouth of the Coppermine River, lat. 67° 54′ N., long. 115° 31′ W., and Point Turnagain, in 1838.—2. The second was formed about Fort Confidence, Great Bear Lake, lat. 66° 55′ N., long. 118° 48′ W.; also in the summer of 1838.—3. The third in the most western point of the journey, namely, between the mouth of the Mackenzie River and Boat Extreme, lat. 71° 3′ 24″ N., W. long. 154° 26′ 30″, in the summer of 1837.